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Technology Predictions for 2006?
OffTheLip writes "As 2006 fast approaches it's time for some to gaze into the crystal ball of technology and predict what will be hot, what will make a difference in our lives or make someone rich and famous. The Mercury News takes a shot at predicting the coming year of technology. No great revelations but it nice to see clean technologies make the list. The list is light on pure technology and big on trends. Perhaps killer apps are not as important as they once were thought to be." What would Slashdot users put in their top 10?
Computers will become twice as powerful and so expensive only the 6 richest people in the world will be able to afford them.
Apple will keep kicking ass and taking names, and other companies will keep doing a poor job of copying them.
Their competitors will keep whining about Apple not licensing FairPlay, but their music store will continue to not support Mac users.
Many salvos will be fired from both sides as Apple seeks to keep non-Apple hardware from running OS X, and the I-want-everything-for-nothing crowd keeps hacking it to run on their shitboxes. Too soon to decide who will win at this point.
You Act Like You Know What You're Saying, But Your Ignorance Is Showing
Since drugs like Marijuana have no medical purpose (according to the federal gov't) any use = abuse. Since opiates and various other meds do have medical uses, you're required to get a perscription because it assumes that the doctor writing you script has some clue wtf he's doing. Doc's who act like script mills, at best get their licenses revoked and at worst, they go to jail.
I also take issue with your contention that "the only difference between abuse and use is whether or not a Doctor wrote you a prescription." That is such a load of crap. You assume that some idiot off the street can self diagnose and self medicate with the same results as a Dr. who meets minimal DEA standards to dispense scheduled drugs and went to school for 7 extra years.
Oh and you know why everyone always says "get a second opinion"? Because some of these educated people we call doctors still make mistakes. And you seriously think "rudimentary symptom support" is all that doctors are good for?
"How can someone consider themself free if they don't have basic sovereignty over their own body?" I guess the threat of going to jail for breaking laws like... i dunno... shooting heroin & smoking crack, means none of us are free?
P.S. Drugs like Ketamine, Extacy, LSD, GHB and a variety of others were banned because they were abused by the party crowd. Not because they had no legitimate uses. They're just getting around to studying X as a psychiatric medication (which was the original use its creator had intended) because of the past and present abuse of MDMA.
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
"400GB of flash would be bigger, heavier, and probably slower than 400GB of magnetic storage. It would also be less reliable. You might be able to get decent performance in a lower-power, quieter device, but even with price parity, why would you want flash with all its drawbacks?"
And how about those new fangled automobiles... damb unreliable... I'll stick with my horse and buggy.. Thank you very much...
Loved your predictions. Why don't you post them on the right place, on ZapFuture.com? Regards.